Work as real life in the context of organised disintegration – a perspective on the everyday life of refugees

Belonging as a Resource of Resilience: Psychological Wellbeing of International and Refugee Students in Study Preparation at German Higher Education Institutions

“…Therefore, it can be hypothesised that worries about xenophobia lead to less feelings of belonging to society and that worries about discrimination within higher education institutions reduce the feeling of belonging to the group of university students (see Figure 1). Due to the social deprivation of the asylum system (Griffiths, & Sigona, 2005;Täubig, 2019;Zetter), it is likely that refugee students have less social resources. If they view their engagement with higher education as an investment in a new life in the host country, and a part of a long-term integration strategy (Grüttner et al, 2018), their wellbeing should be more dependent on social belonging in general than student belonging in particular.…”

Immigrants’ Experiences on Integration While Attempting to Access the Labour Market: Implications for Social Work Practice

“…The focus on the immigrants' own voices and subjectively lived experiences ensures a contemporary relevance concerned with diversity and inclusiveness/integration. This study contributes to the growing literature that recognises the experiences of immigrants and challenges they face, during the process of getting work (Sigad et al 2018;Täubig 2019). The discussion summarizes key results and considers implications for social work practice and professional values.…”

“…This is also found in Sigad et al's (2018) study that concluded that work was considered important for integration by immigrants. The findings in Täubig's (2019) study suggested that participation in the workforce was impeded by barriers. For the participants in our study, having a job was key to realizing other aspects concerned with integration such as housing, health and social links, which also appeared important to them.…”

“…Several studies claim that refugees are particularly vulnerable in the pursuit for work (Marbach et al 2018;Llinares-Insa et al 2020). Results from Germany show that labour barriers (bureaucratic distinctions between citizens and non-citizens, the structural system of legal regulations) impede immigrants' participation in the workforce (Täubig 2019) and thus threaten integration. Evidence of ethnic penalties in Britain (Rafferty 2012), Norway (Fangen 2010), the Netherlands (Gracia et al 2016) and Western countries in general (Midtbøen 2015) highlight barriers to immigrants' transition into the labour markets which in turn hinder integration.…”

The ‘migrant experience’: An analytical discussion

“…Why Schutz and not others who use the stranger to understand the migrant (Best, 2019; Kennedy, 2018; Marotta, 2017; Rumford, 2013)? The importance of Schutz’s phenomenology of the stranger, unlike others, speaks directly to the nature of experience and its relation to knowledge construction and since its publication in 1944, Schutz’s essay on the stranger (1976b) has been cited over 2000 times (Google Scholar) and continues to be the point of reference in many contemporary studies on migration (Bull, George, & Curth-Bibb, 2019; Del Re, 2018; Fletcher & Swian, 2016; Horvat & Pušnik, 2019; Ju & Sandel, 2019; Sealy, 2018; Täubig, 2019). Hence, it is a pivotal text in our understanding of what constitutes the migrant experience and anything that comes after it is an implicit or explicit conversation with Schutz.…”